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  • Lost Forever

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 19, 2004
     | 2,746 views

    An Englishman once remarked: You need not tell me there is no hell, for I already feel my soul slipping into its fires! Wretches, cease your idle talk about there being hope for me! I know I am lost ...read more

  • If You Treat A Man As He Is, He's Going To Stay ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 12, 2004
    based on 1 rating
     | 931 views

    If you treat a man as he is, he’s going to stay like he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be he will become that bigger and better man. Goethe As quoted by Ellen Kreidman in the audio ...read more

  • Judgment Joke

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 28, 2010
     | 6,483 views

    JUDGMENT JOKE It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning; they shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid ...read more

  • Some Time Ago I Was Reading About The 18th ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Gibson on Nov 23, 2000
    based on 120 ratings
     | 4,812 views

    Some time ago I was reading about the 18th century German sculptor Johann Heinrich von Dannecker. His skills were impressive. He could bring stone to life with his tools. At the height of his powers, he wanted to do something special with his gifts -- he wanted to shape a statue of Christ that ...read more

  • A Light That Lasts

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 30, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 7,992 views

    A LIGHT THAT LASTS Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb in 1879. Twenty-two years later, in 1901, one of the newfangled gadgets was hung and turned on in the Livermore, Calif., Fire Department. It’s still there, and still on. The old bulb has almost never been turned off in 109 years. ...read more

  • Oxford Dictionary May State The Meaning Of The ...

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Feb 22, 2012
     | 1,318 views

    Oxford dictionary may state the meaning of the word Security as 'condition or feeling that guards or guarantees our present & future'. In modern context, the moment we contemplate the word 'Security' a picture of a smiling & healthy family in a well-furnished house protected by a proverbial 'ring ...read more

  • A Defensive Programming Problem

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,999 views

    A DEFENSIVE PROGRAMMING PROBLEM In the 1982 war in the Falkland Islands between England and Argentina, the Royal Navy’s 3,500-ton destroyer HMS Sheffield was sunk by a single missile fired from an Argentine fighter jet. This caused some people to wonder if modern surface warships were obsolete. ...read more

  • We're Going To Study A Book Of The Bible That Is ...

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Nov 25, 2008
     | 1,474 views

    We’re going to study a book of the Bible that is often called the LETTER OF JOY. Paul uses the word JOY 20 times in the short little book of Philippians. What makes that really impressive is that Paul wrote the letter from a prison cell. He was not only in prison; he was literally chained to a ...read more

  • Smoke Alarms

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 11, 2011
     | 1,344 views

    SMOKE ALARMS This is one of my smoke alarms. (HIT BUZZER) Annoying, isn’t it? Now a smoke alarm is supposed to go off if the house is on fire. But mine goes off more often than that. Generally my smoke alarm goes off when I’m cooking (yes I’ve burnt my food). And when the smoke from burnt ...read more

  • What's Important In Life...?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2011
     | 3,143 views

    WHAT'S IMPORTANT IN LIFE...? When I was 13, my dad owned his own business--a tiny shack where he sold chicken, ribs, hamburgers, hot dogs, and fries. One day the oil that the chicken was fried in caught fire. In a few minutes the whole place exploded in flames. My dad bolted from the store before ...read more

  • Who's Flying The Plane?

    Contributed by Roger Whipp on Dec 31, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 10,799 views

    I guess many here including me have in the past and if honest still do sometimes ask this question “Why God?” or “How can there be a God with all this suffering” Sometimes life hands us some tricky situations. Former President Ronald Reagan likes to tell a story which he says is true about a ...read more

  • Dwight L. Moody Talked About The Greatest Reg...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Aug 31, 2009
     | 1,925 views

    Dwight L. Moody talked about the greatest regret of his life. 22 years after the event in 1871, he recounted what had happened. "I was preaching on the life of Christ. I had spent 4 Sunday nights on the subject and had followed Christ from the manger along through his life to his arrest and ...read more

  • Staying The Course

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Feb 12, 2012
     | 1,953 views

    STAYING THE COURSE The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at ...read more

  • The Gettysburg Address  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 2,369 views

    THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived ...read more

  • Do Not Conform Any Longer To The Pattern Of This ...

    Contributed by Doane Brubaker on Aug 28, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,868 views

    "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will (Rom 12:2, NIV). The word we translate "transformed" is metamorfousthe. Does that sound ...read more

  • The Soldier Walks 21 Steps. On The 21st Step He ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,596 views

    The soldier walks 21 steps. On the 21st step he turns and faces the tomb he is guarding. He does this for 21 seconds. The soldier then turns to head back the other direction. He moves his rifle to his outside shoulder away from the tomb. After 21 seconds he walks 21 steps and repeats the process ...read more

  • Know-It-All Christians

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
     | 3,288 views

    KNOW-IT-ALL CHRISTIANS Chuck Yeager, the famed test pilot, was flying an F-86 Sabre over a lake in the Sierras when he decided to buzz a friend’s house near the edge of the lake. During a slow roll, he suddenly felt his aileron lock. Says Yeager, "It was a hairy moment, flying about 150 feet off ...read more

  • Prisoner 4664 Nelson Mandela

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 15, 2021
     | 1,272 views

    46664… PRISONER 46664… 1 Corinthians 4:12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: There are times it seems our hurt and wounds are our testing zones and we are put on display for others to mock. It is like the spectacle at the end ...read more

  • I Was Once Preaching In The Chapel Of A ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Sep 10, 2009
     | 2,078 views

    I was once preaching in the chapel of a retirement village in Yuma, Arizona. After delivering the sermon I began chatting with an elderly woman who I later learned was very hard of hearing. We were standing just outside the chapel, near a very beautiful pool table which looked as though it was ...read more

  • My Little Light

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 26, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,274 views

    I HAVE A COMPELLING FOCUS TO REACH MY GOD POTENTIAL… MY CANDLE? I FIND THE ROOM SO DARK… WILL MY LITTLE LIGHT MAKE A DIFFERENCE? WILL I CONSIDER MY SEEDS, MY LITTLE CANDLE, THE LIGHT… James 3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a ...read more

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